Sentences with phrase «where axons»

«Treating axonal degeneration could potentially help a lot of patients because there are so many diseases and conditions where axons are inappropriately lost,» said Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD, professor of developmental biology.

Each glomerulus — «a ball of axons and dendrites,» according to Albeanu — is a junction where axons from sensory neurons meet up with and connect, or synapse, with dendrites sent from the next processing layer in the bulb, populated by mitral cells.

«Treating axonal degeneration could potentially help a lot of patients because there are so many diseases and conditions where axons are inappropriately lost,» says Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD, professor of developmental biology.

Not exact matches

At a higher level of magnification you can see inside the neurons where little corpuscles stream down the long axons like traffic down a highway.

This interrupts the transport of cellular materials along axonal microtubules, causing these materials to accumulate at several points along the axon where they may give rise to varicosities.

The study, published in Nature Neuroscience in August, builds on recent research where neuroscientists got RGC axons to regrow only slightly.

This allows the autoimmune leukocytes to adhere to the blood vessel walls within the inner parts of the nerve, ultimately migrating with direct access to the axons where demyelination can occur.»

Axons can be very long and relatively remote from the central portion of the cell, which houses the nucleus where DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA that can then be converted into proteins.

Axons sprout from neurons and then migrate to specific parts of the developing brain where they interact with other neurons to form neural networks.

Two - photon microscopy image of a layer of the mouse olfactory bulb (viewed head - on from the front) containing relay stations call glomeruli — places where bundles of axons and dendrites meet.

Unlike peripheral nerves, which re-sprout axons when they are damaged, mature spinal neurons do not regrow axons in the part of the body where the injury has occurred — such as when the spinal cord is cut or crushed — which results in paralysis below the injury.

Infection happens in peripheral tissues, then the virus particles enter axons and zoom into the distant cell nucleus, where the viral genetic information can become latent, sleeping for days or even years.

Likewise, our laboratory also studies models of Alzheimer's, ALS, and «mad cow» diseases, where proteins involved in these diseases aggregate inside axons.

Presumably, dopamine is released at the neuron's axon terminal in the orbitofrontal cortex where it updates the identity information.

Understanding the role of glial cells in glaucoma as well as what happens to the optic nerve where the retinal nerve axons leave the eye may present new therapeutic targets and even potential biomarkers of glaucoma.

Suspecting that the clustering of nerves in the striatum may somehow relate to their function, Professor Graybiel later showed (in monkeys) that neurons in the sensory cortex, where sensation is perceived, project axons into the striatum.

The chemical is released from one axon terminal and crosses the gap (called a synapse) where it bonds to the receptor site and triggers an electric impulse in the second nerve.